http://www.timeforge.com/site Save time while improving profitability! Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:46:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In many locales, labor laws for the service industry severely limit the number of hours that a non-exempt employee can work.  Hours worked can be limited by the industry, age, job description (position worked), hourly rate, holiday, length of shift, or even the day of the week.  If your business ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/industry/articles/ignoring-labor-regulations-result-heavy-fines/ In addition to the many other updates on TimeForge, detailed in Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 - the monthly TimeForge pricing also received an update over the weekend, providing a more level field for all of our customers. The current pricing is published on the TimeForge website, and existing ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/timeforge-features/pricing/ Read Part 1 and Part 2 of the November newsletter here. The TimeForge Daily Log, our newest product offering has received many recent improvements, including: Numeric Analysis is available in the Daily Log, transforming the Daily Log into an extremely powerful trend analysis tool for your business.  Enter values for deposits, sales, ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/timeforge-features/timeforge-newsletter-november-edition-part-3/ Read Part 1 of the November newsletter here. Some of the improvements to the TimeForge products are detailed below. TimeForge Scheduling - Improvements for Employees The employee side of TimeForge Labor Scheduling has received a number of improvements over the past few months, including some major improvements this past weekend.  These include: Employees can ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/timeforge-features/timeforge-newsletter-november-edition-part-2/ It has been almost six months since the last TimeForge Newsletter went out – and we apologize!  We have been so busy adding new functionality and improving TimeForge that we haven't taken the time to inform you about all of the new TimeForge features.  As most of you know, we ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/timeforge-features/timeforge-newsletter-november-edition-part-1/ We are a few months late getting this bit of news to all of our users -- but we were featured (for the second time) by Accuvia, in their monthly newsletter, Foodservice Tech Advisor.  In August, Accuvia featured TimeForge in their annual Back Office issue, featuring some of our recent ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/industry/resources/accuvia-restaurant-office-issue/ We previously discussed the Wall Stree Journal article about Starbucks recent change in labor scheduling at most of their stores.  The change has been initiated by management to address issues of slower sales in the economy, save on labor costs, and to reduce turnover by providing more hours to (fewer) ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/industry/articles/follow-starbucks-labor-scheduling/ In many businesses, employees are perceived as a required evil – payroll is a liability that is necessary to be in business.  Unfortunately, in many service oriented industries (such as retail, food-service, and hospitality industries), this attitude harms the business by increasing turnover, deflating morale, complicating legitimate hiring practices, and ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/industry/articles/employees-are-assets-not-liabilities/ According to the Wall Street Journal, the largest coffee retailer, Starbucks, is changing its scheduling system to have fewer employees work longer hours at its various locations.  The goal of the new scheduling program is to reduce labor costs for the chain, while improving sales through customer familiarization with the ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/industry/articles/starbucks-employee-scheduling/ Managers are More Expensive than Non-Salaried Staff In many industries including retail, hospitality, food-service, hotels, and manufacturing, salaried management staff are usually several times more expensive than non-salaried staff at the same business. In many cases, one member of the salaried staff can be more expensive than five or six ... http://www.timeforge.com/site/industry/articles/management-time-is-money-schedule-it-wisely/